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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-22
that this hardening was proof how
much he loved their people?

that this hardening was proof how
much he loved their people?
In reading Hebrew history we find it
saturated with the thought that Jeho-
yah was the immediate and efficient
cause, both of their prosperity and ad-
versity. Secondary or natural causes
play but small part. Jehovah was as
imminent as he was local to them. Be-
sides having to grapple with the Exc
dean hardening, it is brought to our at
tention by Paul. We know Augustine
and Calvin thought Pharaoh had no
rights God was bound to respect. He
had right to do just as he pleased ar
bitrarily. They believed God raised
him up for the special purpose of hard
ening and then damning him. We can
excuse Paul and relieve him from the
odium Augustine and Calvin load him
with. Paul dwells more on the pur-
poses Of God than all the rest of the
apostles. The sheet anchor of his faith
was Gods will predestination = in
which mans will is subordinate. Cal
vinism loads down predestination with
limited atonement. Paul's predestina-
tion floats like an angel of light in the
universe of Gods love. He contemplates
the work of Christ in the redemption of
a world from the thraldom of sin, as
sufficient and efficient-''a ransom for
alp to be proven in due time. In large
house there are many vessels, each hav-
ing use for the Master, some less hon.
orable than more pretentious ones.
Paul's predestination only brings out a
Pharaoh as necessary factor in part
of the eternal purpose of God, and finally
comprehends him as included in the
consummation Of final purposes when
Christ shall have finished his mission
by drawing all men to himself, that
they and he may be one with the Father,
and God be all in all.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-22
woRKINGMEN AND SUNDAY.

The working classes cannot sell their
Sabbaths without selling that which is
vitally essential to their physical and
moral we'll being. Society cannot COM
pei or allow men to sell the time of the
Sabbath Day, and hope to preserve for
all classes that measure of industrial
independence, moral as well as phys
ical, which is necessary in order that
men may be fit for citizenship in free
State. Let the Sundays of laboring
men be legally sold to factories and
railroads, or let the Sundays of business
men generally be surrendered, whether
individuals will or not, to the general
lust for gain, and the whole economy
of modern life would soon settle into a
hopeless, grinding, and most wasteful
industrial slavery. Men must reserve
for themselves, for their own uses,
physical, mental, and moral, and for
their home life, this much at least Of
time, if they are to remain freemen, if
they are to be anything better than cal
culating machines in the Office or hands
in the shop.-Dr. NelCmGn Snyth, in
The Forum.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-22
WHAT CAN THEY MEAN 2
BY REV. JACOB MERRIFIELD.
(Plainfield, Ill.)

There seems to be strong tendency
with many to adhere tenaciously to un-
tenable ideas. The habit once formed,
Of thinking enormously, seems to be
very difficult to overcome. The habit
of admitting old but untenable assump-
tions as bases of thought, seems to be,
in some cases, almost if not altogether
incurable in the present stage of our
being.
There seems also to be certain
timidity with many, that causes alarm
at the thought of abandoning old
assumptions useless fear to seek for
more rational and more tenable ground.
Otherwise, what can be the mean
ing of men who still continue to talk
and write about 1.-THE supernatural
and about creation by miracle?''
Otherwise, what are we to think the
point is, that may be aimed at in treat
ing of the supernatural" the "mirac.
ulous," as if these terms were verita-
BILE necessity; as if nature and the uni
verse were matters extraneous to the
being of an eternally omnipresent and
omnipotent God; as if they were mat
ters from which God were absolutely
separate in being, and as if, in reality,
there must have been time in the past
of several thousand years, or at most
several million years ago, when there
was no such reality as nature in exis-
tence, and no such thing as a universe
for the manifestation of Gods eternal
power and mind nothing, in fact,
but God without a nature and with
out a creation to manifest his being.
even to himself ?
Are we, in the nature of the case.
under the least necessity of supposing
that, from an unbegun past until GER
tain imagined point in duration, God
dwelt alone in the sublime inactivity of
supreme spirit, with nothing to do d?
Is there any reason why we should
think that never till that point arrived,
had God acted, never till then exerted
his eternal energy but that just then
! he awoke from an inactivity of being
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-22

thank thee, o Lord, that we have been
permitted to meet and worship together
upon this occasion, to-day. Bless thy
servant who has preached to us this
afternoon. Bless all the truth he has
spoken. But make him more charita-
BILE and just {; and, o Lord, teach him
the improperly of misrepresenting the
beliefs of his fellow Christians as he
has done at this time" Everybody who
ever heard the man, knows something,
perhaps, of his marvellous memory.
Beginning at that point, he took up
one by one the heads of the Elders
sermon, and reviewed them all. He
prayed more than an hour, but so
ingeniously and fervently was the
work done, that his hearers were fasci-
mated, and almost spell-bound by his
words. His quotations from the Bible
were pertinent, and abundant. 'Man
has declared, o Lord, by thy Prophet
Isaiah, 1--WE bless thee for the testi-
mony of John," "We thank thee for
the prophecy of Christ''-he said, some
times naming the book, and chapter,
and verse, in which the quotations
might be found. And at last came those
strange words: "And it is thine re-
vealed will, o God, that all men will
be saved, and come to the knowledge
of the truth, and thou will find it re-
corded in first Timothy, second chapter,
fourth versei''
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only for those who accept him as their
atoning sacrifice. And since the day of
grace is limited to this world, and many
do not now accept him for that, to many
his death is a curse since their guilt is
augmented by it. No one will claim
that Christ, in fact, died for the advan-
tage of the man whose endless suffering
is increased thereby. So far as the re-
suit is concerned, Calvinism and Armi-
nianism agree the death of Jesus only
benefits the saved, a small part of our
race.
Universalism alone affirms that Jesus
both potentially and actually tasted
death for the benefit of every man, that
through it every one shall obtain re-
demption, reconciliation, the destruc-
tion within him of sin. He tasted death
for every man by the grace Of God.
This indicates that God has kindly
feeling toward every one, and desires
his salvation. ''He commendeth his
love toward us in that, while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for u.s." If it
be the divine desire that all should be
benefited by the death of Jesus, surely
there can be no power in heaven, on
earth, or in the underworld that can de-
feat that desire. 1t cannot be that
human wishes will prevail against His.
Again, it is declared to be the divine
will that all men should be saved and
come unto a knowledge of the truth.
That God hath purposed in the fullness
of time to gather in one all things in
Christ, things in heaven and on earth.
If it thus be the will and purpose of
God that all should be saved through
the death of Jesus is it possible that
any adverse power in the universe, hui
man, angelic, diabolic, if there be any,
should successfully antagonize that will
and purpose If 80, then God is not
supreme in the universe. But more
and stronger we have the declaration
that Jesus gave himself a ransom for
all, the testimony to which is to be
borne in its own time.
John Browns death has proven, and
will continue to, a boon to every colored
man in America, freeing him from the
curse of slavery. So Christ's death shall
result in delivering every man from the
bondage Of sin.
There is said to be soul of truth in
things erroneous. Arminianism en-
phasizes an essential truth. Salvation
is conditional. No one can be benefited
by the death Of Jesus until he becomes
participant thereof, through faith in
nm, ana the POSSESSION of the spirit Of
love and sacrifice which sent him to the
cross. We do not expect that any man
will ever be saved till he conforms to
the necessary conditions; but we hold
that error to be colossal which affirms
that unless one accepts the terms in
this present life, he never will. God is
bound by his attributes and promises to
make something noble out of every
man, and in the long ages which are
before him he can surely do this with
out interfering in the least with his free
agency, or releasing him at all from the
conditions of salvation. Then will the
testimony be borne that Jesus gave
himself a ransom for all; that he tasted
the death cup for the benefit of every
man
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ECCENTRIC PRAYERS.
[BY ONE WHO DON'T MAKE THEM.

The late Prof. Stowe was a man of
marked ability, and much learning,
but peculiar, eccentric man and he
made, often, very eccentric prayers.
In the year 1852, when he was pro-
fessor at Andover, Neal Dow visited
the place to lecture upon temperance.
Those men were old friends, and had
been associated in the temperance
movement in Maine, in former years.
Mr.. Dow was entertained during his
Andover visit at-the Stowe "cabin -
and the professor was asked to open
the lecture at the old South Church on
the hill, with prayer. "Thou knowest,
o Lord" he began, "how thy servant,
and Neal Dow, who is to speak to us
tonight, labored together under great
discouragements, for many years, in
this great cause of temperance, down
in the State of Maine - And in the
prayer he proceeded to give the Lord
quite minute account of what had
been done "down in Maine," by himself
and Neal Dow.
DR.. Whittemore, of our own Church,
man of wonderful and versatile gifts,
preached great deal to the people un-
der the guise of prayer to the Lord.
That is no new thing in the pulpit; and
similar things are often heard in our
day. President Finney, of Oberlin,
was full of it. DR.. Finney was iE the
habit of praying with his eyes wide
open, and took note, too, of what was
passing around him while he prayed.
Professor Fairchild was often late at
church. Coming into the church one
Sunday morning when DR.. Finney was
in prayer, the doctors quick eye was up
on him as he entered the door, and he
said deliberately, 80 Lord, there comes
President Fairchild, late as usual.
Stir him up, o Lord, and make him
more punctual!'
At the college at Oberlin, upon one
occasion-we have this from one of
the parties interested and present
when four young ladies were to gradu-
ate, and to speak, or read, the president
prayed about in this wise: 80 Lord
bless these four young ladies who are
to take part in the exercises of this
morning. Grant, o Lord, that they
may speak sufficiently distinct and
loud to be heard by all present, with
out difficulty; and grant, o Lord, that
the audience may keep so orderly
and still that these young ladies can be
easily heard without being obliged to
speak too loudl' A comprehensive
prayer, and appreciated on earth if it
did not reach the hills, from whence
cometh our help.
Russell Streeter, also of our own
Church, was gifted and eloquent man;
and few men among US, in the day of
his power, could move the hearts of the
people as he did. But in his preaching
and his prayers he was as eccentric as
Prof. Stowe. Upon one oecasion-the
only instance we will mention now
in a union church, when Mr.. Streeter
preached in the morning, and Metho-
dist itinerant, in the afternoon, the
latter made aviolent assault upon Uni
versalism, and showed great deal of
bitterness in doing it. The sermon
was long, and scattered, isolated texts
were thrown together in strange fash
ion to demolish the new heresy preach
ing among the people. Mr.. Streeter
made the closing prayer. A minister
who was in the pulpit with the two
others, gives us the narration. "We
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-22

One OF the concessions made to the
Catholics of Germany by Bismarck was
the restoration of full theological Gath
olic faculty at Bonn, where, since 1870,
half of the professors had been Old Cath
olics. These appointments have now
been made. AS German professors are
appointed for life, the two Old Catholic
men-Langen and Reusch-are also still
members Of this faculty, but the day of
their usefulness is doubtless over.
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The Brookhaven leader., 1887-07-21
FEMALE MINE WORKERS.
Sturdy Women Who Screen and Sift En-
glands Coal Supply.

glands Coal Supply.
The sympathy of sensible people,
not unmixed with amusement, wonder
and trife of admiration, has been re-
Gently expressed in favor of the sturdy
Lancashire lasses who came up to
London and called upon the Home
Secretary, asking Government to re-
Sist the proposed clauses of the Mines
Regulation bill. Women and girls
never 90 down into 1.-The pit at col
liery, but they are employed at the
pit brow" the mound of earth and
shale around the mouth of the shaft.
in the work of screening or sitting the
smaller coal. 1t is rough and hard
work; though not more so than the
labors of the peasant women
in the fields. 1t is certain
ly not unhealthy for the strong
creatures they are; and, as they are
not associated with the men in this en-
ployment, there is no intercourse that
is likely to prejudice the cause Of
morality. We can remember, how
ever, some thirty years ago, seeing
what was not q pretty slSnt-youh9
women harnessed by leather belts to
small carts, which they dragged up
and down a line of planks as if they
were donkeys. The loads were not
too heavy, and they seemed to thing it
no degradation. 1t is to be hoped,
nevertheless, that this clumsy and un-
seemly method of carriage has long
been disused. At any rate. the mere
wearing of the divided skirt" or
loose trousers of black flannel, like the
Jacket, which forms convenient and
very decent costume, ought not to Of
fend our delicacy, and can not be
deemed to justify passing law to for
bid their honestly earning their bread.
illustrated London NelcS.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-07-21
Pigeons in Russia.

One is struck by the multitudes of pig
cons in and about Moscow. They are held
in great reverence by the common people,
and no Russian will harm them. Indeed,
they are as sacred here as monkeys in
Benares, or doves in Venice, being consid-
cred emblems of the Holy Ghost, and
under protection OF the church. They
wheel about in large blue hocks through
the air, so dense as to cast shadows, like
swift-moving clouds between the sun and
the earth, alighting fearlessly where they
choose, TO share the beggar's crumbs or
the bounty of the affiuent. II Is notable
fact that this domestic bird was also con.
sidered sacred by the old Scandlnavians,
who believed that, for certain period
after death, the soul OF the deceased,
under such form, was accustomed TO cemo
TO eat and drink with as we'll rs to watch
the behavior OF the mourners.-DGs North,
by II. N. BaLtoH.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-07-21
Starvation in Liberia.

COLUMBIA, S. c., July 16.--Letters are
frequently received here from many Of
the colored people who emigrated from
this State to Liberia several years ago, in
which woeful tales are told of their co =
dition in that country. A few days ago a
colored tenant on John ID. Tyler's planta-
tion ip Lancaster County, received a let
ter from one of his kinsmen, an inteli-
gent negro, who went to Liberia in the
Azor, in which he pleads for means TO re-
turn TO South Carolina. He says that he
and his companions will enter into solemn
obligations to work the balance Of their
days for any person who will pay their
passage back TO this country.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-07-21
Aristocratic Society.

Mrs. Waldo (of Boston)-I have a
letter from your Uncle James, Pencil
ope, who wants us TO spend the sum-
mer on his farm.
Penelope (dubiouslO-is there amy
society in the neighborhood.
Mrs. Wado-I have heard him speak
of the Holsteins and GuernseyS. 4
presume theyare pleasant people.--A
Y. SGIG
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-07-21

HAPPINsss is where we find it. but rarely
where we seek ik--L Psttt Sesa,
The St. Johns herald., 1887-07-07

. The. Live Stock and Produce Re view gives the Cattle Trust a terri .ble rounding up, as follows: By
 th0se;Who are. familiar with the fins and outs of the western cattle busi- ness the American Cattle Trust is looked upon as one of. the most stupendous frauds that was ever attempted to be perpetrated upon a copfding public. It is declared to be scheme concocted by few shrewd (and some time since wealthy) cattle kings to unload upon other shoulders their unpro- fitable< holdings. To assume that any considerable number of the western ranchmen will complacent- ly and unreservedly resign the en- tire management of their private business into the hands of men who
 have no greater claim upon the confidence of the public than have
 those at the head of the American
 Cattle Trust, presupposes a state ot mental imbecility not at all consis- tent with the past business success of the cattlemen of the plains. If the men who conceived and are car rying forward the Trust are suffer ing from financial eramp, the desire to obtain relief is pardonable, but that does not impose upon their more fortunate brethren any obli, gation to assist in furthering the
The St. Johns herald., 1887-07-07

Another subject of no less inn portance, coming peculiarly within the province of Territorial Asso- ciation, is the matter of providing abetter and more profitable manner of marketing the live stock pro- ducts of the Territory. The rapid ly increasing number of .over-stock- ed ranges, the swift accumulation of not only dead, but expensive to keep capital in the shape of over mature beef animals. for which no available market at present can be had and other no less potent causes combine to make the propo- sition of finding new outlets-for our surplus stock one. of vital impor- tance to every stock grower. This is fact which has been recognized for years, yet the intelligent and only effort to meet the emergency by the opening of Northern Trail has thus far proved unavailing, simply because of lack of unity among those who are most inter ested. The feasibility of the pro- ject has been definitely settled by practical demonstration, and while the opening of such a trail would mean q speedy and direct increase in the value of every head of stock in the Territory, the probabilities are that the scheme will never be consummated unless through the agency of a general live stock as s0ciation.
The St. Johns herald., 1887-07-07

The present time is most propi- tious and fitting for the creation ot d Territorial Live Stock Associa- ton. There has been but recently consummated the first intelligent effort ever made to establish q quar- antine. What that quarantine will be, and what good will accrue from it, will depend more on the assist ance given by the stockmen of the Territory as a whole to the Sani- tary Commission towards enforcing it than on the Commission itself. All that the latter can do is to put the machinery in operation, and thereafter, no matter how ably and conscientiously the Commission
 may labor to discharge its duties, alone it cannot ensure to tie opera lions of the law, a fraction of the success which will attend them If the stockmca of the Territory make it their business asa body to aid
 aud assist in maintaining rigid
The St. Johns herald., 1887-07-07
enforcement of the established reg ulations.

Equal in importance with the
 question of quarantine is the need
 for unity of action by the stockmer
 of the Territory on the subject of a
 more equitable tax assessment on all classes of live stock. The as
 sessments thus far made by the as
 sessors of the various counties range from $15 to $10 per head, some counties holding the former
 to be the correct valuation, while
 others incline to the lower figures.
 We have already expressed our
 opinion in common with several To-
 cal stock associations, that $10 is a
 just valuation for range cattle, con
 sidering the present state of de
 pression that exists in the stock business of the West. To make the Territorial Board of Equalization recognize this fact, however, is a different matter. Yet unless some united effort is made by the stock men of the Territory there is but little reason to doubt that the high and extortionate valuations placed on cattle during the past years of prosperity will be maintained du- ring these days of adversity. The Board in question will meet on the first Monday in August, at which time it will hear and consider all applications for reductions in tax assessments. It is stated that the various railroads in the Territory will apply for a reduction of the assessments made on that class of. property, while an effort will be- made by the miners to have the as sessments against patented mines, which have been imposed in seye- ral counties, entirely abrogated as detrimental to the mining interests of the Territory. If other interests, no more extensive or important than stock raising, find it necessary to combine to watch their interests in this respect, why should not cat tlemen do likewise? In this matter alone, touching as it directly does the pocket of every individual stockman in the Territory, a repre- sentative body, authorized to rep resent the stock interests of every | section, might ensure reduction in the rate of tax assessments on cattle which would in a single year more than ten-fold repay the cost of maintaining it's organization.
The St. Johns herald., 1887-07-07

The questions raised by the en- forcement of the Interstate Com merce law form another series of unsolved problems that are of vital importance to every stock raiser in the Territory, as relating directly to the marketing of the vast numbers of surplus beef cattle at present